Many thanks Nivard I'll take your advice about joining the National Library. Thanks also for the obit. Unfortunately it's not as full as it could have been. I'd been hoping it'd contain some reference to the Second World War along with his brother Claude, and sister-in-law, Suzanne. Suzanne was murdered in prison by the Gestapo in August 1944 (she's in Wikipedia). Claude's mistress (and second wife) Ruth Peters hid in Charles Spaak's wife-to-be's flat until the Liberation. My interest stems from my having recently learned that my step-father's first wife had been stranded in France in 1940 and knew Claude, Suzanne and Ruth. She had a role as a walk-on extra in the Red Orchestra spy ring and was also been arrested but survived. Thanks again David Armstrong Maylands, Western Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: Nivard Ovington To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [LEI] The Times - Obituary request Hi David As an Australian resident you will have access to the majority of online newspapers including the Times to 1985, via your National Library of Australia (as opposed to your state library) You need to join (online) and armed with the library number you can access from home 24/7 As I was already in the Times I will send the short obit offlist anyway Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > G'day everyone > > Does anyone have access to the on-line The Times archive please. > > I would like obtain a copy of the Obituary of CHARLES SPAAK which I understand to be in the 6th > March 1975 edition. > > Many thanks > > David Armstrong > Maylands, > Western Australia ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
You are most welcome You may find something else with some more varied searches , not everything OCR'd is perfectly indexed , plus variations of the name perhaps (papers are very good at getting the names wrong) I am sure you have it but found this on Suzanne http://neohumanism.org/s/su/suzanne_spaak.html An extremely brave woman by the sounds of it We cannot begin to understand what they went through and the bravery they showed Unfortunately many events and experiences of people who endured wars were not recorded anywhere so there may not be anything to find I can't recall if the NLA covers the Guardian newspaper as well as the Times but you can check I am sure , there are quite a few hits for the name but I have no idea if any are relevant to your research As daft as it sounds, unless you have already done so, its also worth checking your own Aussie papers on Trove, I have often found snippets recorded that do not even appear in English papers Good luck Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Many thanks Nivard > > I'll take your advice about joining the National Library. > > Thanks also for the obit. > > Unfortunately it's not as full as it could have been. I'd been hoping it'd contain some reference > to the Second World War along with his brother Claude, and sister-in-law, Suzanne. Suzanne was > murdered in prison by the Gestapo in August 1944 (she's in Wikipedia). Claude's mistress (and > second wife) Ruth Peters hid in Charles Spaak's wife-to-be's flat until the Liberation. > > My interest stems from my having recently learned that my step-father's first wife had been > stranded in France in 1940 and knew Claude, Suzanne and Ruth. She had a role as a walk-on extra > in the Red Orchestra spy ring and was also been arrested but survived. > > Thanks again > > David Armstrong > Maylands, > Western Australia